Railways to offer faster e-ticketing, Wi-Fi in stations

Railways to offer faster e-ticketing, Wi-Fi in stations

The Railway Budget on Tuesday proposed a major revamp of the passenger reservation facility by transforming it into a next generation e-ticketing system, supporting 7,200 tickets per minute and allowing 1.20 lakh users simultaneously.

Presenting the Railway Budget, Minister D V Sadananda Gowda said ticket booking through mobile phones and post offices will also be popularised.

Railways to offer faster e-ticketing, Wi-Fi in stations

"Railway reservation system will be revamped into a next generation e-ticketing system. We will improve the system capabilities in e-ticketing to support 7200 tickets per minute as against 2000 tickets per minute and allow 1.20 lakh simultaneous users at any point in time," the Minister said.

He said efforts will also be made to provide facility of buying platform tickets and unreserved tickets over the internet.

Railways to offer faster e-ticketing, Wi-Fi in stations

Some other initiatives will be launched with the help of IT such as real time tracking of trains and rolling stocks, mobile based wake up call system for passengers, mobile based destination arrival alert, station navigation information system and extension of computerized parcel management system.

The minister also mentioned about other initiatives such as digital reservation charts at stations and extension of dual display fare repeaters at all the ticket counters through PPP mode.

Gowda also informed about digitisation and mapping of rail assets for better management and usage.